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Whitney Bashor, who was seen on Broadway as Marian/Chiara in The Bridges of Madison County, singing Jason Robert Brown's folk-inspired "Another Life," will offer a solo concert…
Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart and Aladdin co-stars Adam Jacobs, Courtney Reed and Jonathan Freeman will sign Aladdin cast albums at Barnes & Noble in New York City Ju…
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, currently starring as a woman rebuilding her life in Broadway's If/Then, took to the stage of the famed Radio City Music Hall for a solo, sold-out concert…
It's A Love Story, an original musical by Dale Murphy — about finding oneself in high school — that is told through the music of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, played May 9-…
In the world-premiere production of Drunk Shakespeare, cast members perform a William Shakespeare story in 60 minutes — while drinking at a bar. Playbill.com asked its cast to set thei…
The original Broadway cast album of Disney's Aladdin, which stars Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, hits shelves June 17.
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, releases the physical version of "Duke Ellington: The Original Recordings That Inspired The Broadway Hit After Midni…
This American Life, a musical event that was held June 7 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and featured a mini-musical by Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, will be available for download June 2…
The songwriters of The Circle Songbook are back for another night of original musical theatre songs with The Circle Songbook: Vol. 2 June 16 at the Duplex.
Shoshana Bean, who has been seen on Broadway in Wicked and Hairspray, will offer Los Angeles concerts June 17 and 24 — as well as a New York City show July 27. In anticipation of Bean&…
Five-time Emmy Award-winning comedian Wanda Sykes hosts the 2014 TrevorLIVE June 16 in New York at the Marriott Marquis. "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman helms the evening.
Playbill.com catches up with Rod and Ricky, the same-sex puppets from the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, who were engaged in 2011 and tied the knot July 24, 2011 — the first day …
The fourth annual Night of a Thousand Judys takes place June 16 at Merkin Concert Hall. Sierra Boggess, Julia Murney, Jackie Hoffman and Rory O'Malley are among the evening'…
The Broadway podcast The Ensemblist heads to Birdland Jazz Club June 16 to celebrate its first anniversary with a live show. Ensemblist creators Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone have invit…
Two-time Tony Award winner Viola Davis, Arija Bareikis, Lynda Gravátt, Russell Hornsby, Corey Stoll and Lauren Vélez, cast members of the 2004 award-winning production of Lynn …
The 2014 Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, which took home three 2014 Tony Awards, including the Tony for Best Revival of a Play, plays its final performance …
The Tony Award-nominated musical revue After Midnight, which was expected to bring in a roster of Grammy Award-winning divas this summer, will close earlier than expected, producers ann…
Tony, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner Sheldon Harnick receives The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre at Goodspeed Musicals' Razzle Dazzle gala June 14.
Dallas County's Lyric Stage closes its 21st season with Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's Tony Award-winning musical Titanic, beginning June 13 in the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter…
Lesli Margherita, an Olivier Award winner for her performance in Zorro and current star of Broadway's Matilda, brings her solo show All Hail the Queen to 54 Below June 13-14.
Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim will attend the June 26 Encores! Off-Center performance of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick… BOOM!, a press representative for Encores! confirmed to…
Tickets are now on sale for the newly revised version of Terrence McNally's comedy It's Only a Play, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, Tony Award winner Matthew Broder…
Following the Tony Awards Administration Committee meeting June 11 — and the announcement that the Tony Awards for Sound Design of a Play and Musical have been eliminated — membe…
Rob Ford the Musical: Birth of A Ford Nation, a musical based on Toronto mayor Rob Ford — who admitted to smoking crack cocaine, "drunken stupors" and public intoxication &md…
Students in Clearwater, FL, are breaking their silence and taking pride in their stories with Jared O'Roark's Project: Shattered Silence. This year's production, Compositions, op…